It's political coverage is especially poor. One manifestation of this is that it doesn't seem to have any consistent line -- in March it was angling for IDS's resignation and today it is going after Tony Blair. This feeds into its coverage of itsown opinion polls, where the interpretation is always made to fit their current view. Hence there was an opinion poll around the time of the Conservative Central Office shenanigans which showed the Conservatives 1% or thereabouts behind Labour, and the Times had a headline something like 'Disaster for Tories' or 'Conservatives ailing'. Today there is an opinion poll showing that despite the government's current difficulties they remain 4% ahead,. yet the Times wants to spin a story that Blair is in trouble, so it headlines it 'Tory revival puts heat on Blair'. Surely the real story of today's opinion poll is that the 'Baghdad Bounce' has come back to earth?
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The American-hating Daily Telegraph is at it again with today's headline. Iraq rebuiliding in chaos. The Telegraph alleges that British military officials have pained 'a grim picture of American incompetence and mismanagement' and that 'the growing dissatisfaction among oridinary Iraqis is easily discernible on the streets of the capital'.
This is typical of the know-nothing British media. Did they not read Mark Steyn's article from Iraq in the same newspaper just 8 days' ago, in which he said everything was fine and dandy? Do they want Saddam back? Are they apologists for murder and terror? have they not seen the mass graves?
I suppose you can't expect much better from a newspaper run by a Canadian wimp and edited by an English aristocrat, but it's still disappointing.
posted by Matthew @ 6/17/2003 09:00:00 AM
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